User manual

Maintaining the VITEK
®
2 Instrument Maintaining Disposables
VITEK
®
2 Instrument User Manual 7-9
510731-10EN1
7) Remove the pipette container from its base using a pulling motion.
8) Discard any pipette tips that remain in the container.
CAUTION: To avoid contaminating new pipette tips, do not touch
the inside of the pipette container.
Note: Discarding the remaining tips is required in order for VITEK
®
2 to maintain an
accurate count of them. This action also minimizes the risk of contamination.
9) Open a pipette tip replacement pack and hold it in one hand (see
Figure 7-7).
CAUTION: The exposed ends (5, Figure 7-7) of the pipette tips
are the ones that come in contact with your specimens.
Appropriate precautions to prevent contamination during this
procedure are advised.
10) Hold the empty pipette container
(4) in your other hand with its open
end down and lower it over the
exposed ends (5) of the pipette
tips.
11) Invert the container and pack (6)
so that the pipette tips fall into the
container from the pack.
12) Replace the pipette tip container
on its base, making sure that it is
firmly seated.
There is a key pin on the side of
the container that must mate with
a slot on the container base.
Note: If the container is not seated correctly,
you will not be able to rotate it back into
position.
13) Rotate the container 90° in a clockwise direction, making sure that it is
fully seated in the down position.
14) Close both access doors and press Done.
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Figure 7-7: Pipette Tip Replacement